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Thursday, January 30, 2014

2153 Drive-Bys

Some drive-by thoughts today.
Drive-by thoughts are those little observations that occur to me when I'm out
driving. A lot of them have nothing to do with driving, or even anything I've
seen while I've been driving, but are somehow driven into my brain by random
inspiration.

So the other day I was driving, and
around this one area I smelled a smell not unlike the smell you smell when a
bit of meat or fat drips onto the fire in your barbecue. Or that comes
billowing out from the odor ejectors at Burger King.

The first time I smelled it the air
was pretty still. One of those winter stagnant air days they call burn bans on.
I figured some homeowner with a woodstove misplaced a piece of bacon. I smelled
it again in the same place as I drove through a couple of weeks later.

Then I realized. I was downwind of
a crematorium. Mystery solved. But a new one in its place. Do crematoriums have
to honor burn bans?

Another time a news report came on
when I was driving. They were talking about Seahawks tickets going on sale to
the general public and that they were around 80 bucks but they expected they
would fetch much more on the secondary market.

Secondary market? Didn't we used to
call that scalping? Secondary market sounds so much less gruesome. "The
Apaches attacked the settlers, Colonel."

"Their own fault, they
squatted on the Apaches' land."

"Still... It wasn't nice for
the Apaches to secondary market them."

Lastly, just a thought that drove
in when I was daydreaming. I like the internet and all for showing funny
things. But how many grumpy cat memes are too many grumpy cat memes?